Man if they can get the price down to $200 or $300 and make it bootable then I may consider getting one...which probably won't be for a couple of years.
For $900 I could have new PC. Or I could get a server board and load up $900 worth of RAM (~24+GB?) and make my self a nice 10GB RAMDisk. Seriously tough, this thing should be aimed more at servers than gamers.
[citation][nom]redgarl[/nom]Professional gaming is pathetic...[/citation]
You're just pissed because you hate your job. If I could make sick money playing video games/tournaments, traveling around the world, and endorsing products...um...yeah. Sign me up.
Ok, so $900 for 80GB non bootable at 520 MB/s. Or two X25-M 80GB drives and a hardware RAID card in a RAID 0 setup for $700 giving 160GB, performance not much slower and bootable. Or three X25-M 80GB drives with a hardware raid card in RAID 0 setup for about $1025 giving 240GB, fair bit faster performance and bootable. This really looks like terrible value imo.
"The drive will plug into a PCI-e x1 slot and offer speeds that break through current SATA standards--even the new and not yet available SATA 6 Gbps."
The Fusion-io ioxtreme is being released on a PCI-e x4 card (like pictured), not a x1 card like the article states. Would be hard to break the current SATA speeds on a x1 pci-e lane
Get SlayerS_`BoxeR` or any *REAL* gamer's name on it and I'll be impressed. Only reason I know who Fata1ty is is that companies put his name on things for some stupid reason.
I'm sorry but a grand for 80 gig's is just silly. I really don't care how fast it is but hell, so many games are taking up crazy amounts of space now a days. Let me know when the thing is 500 gigs in size and bootable.
If this could get it's price inline with drives suck as the Velociraptor, it would make a big splash. With a $900 price tag, it will be a very slow adoption.
I would personally like to see a hybrid RAM/solid state drive with the OS and commonly used files loaded into the RAM on boot up. Then just mirror everything onto the solid state storage as it runs. I know you can do this with a RAM drive and a software solution, but a hardware solution would be much faster.